Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
KURT VONNEGUTHello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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All this happened, more or less.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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